| ▲ | kjkjadksj 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
Crazy that a discount grocer can trade blows with big american cloud compute. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | browningstreet 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Don't you mean that it's crazy that a discount grocer can trade blows with a bookseller? | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | retired 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
LIDL sells everything you need in your life in the middle aisle. Even cloud solutions. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | burner-phone73 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
The Schwarz Gruppe (owner of Lidl) makes about as much as Meta and Microsoft. So, yes, they're are big player. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Barrin92 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
the parent company (Schwarz Group) has over half a million employees and makes something like 200 billion in revenue per year, I think calling it a discount grocer is underselling it a bit lol. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | myroon5 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
But can a wool shoe company? https://ir.allbirds.com/news-releases/news-release-details/a... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rwmj 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Getting a large customer is a great win for them, but setting up a cloud service isn't that hard? The most complicated bit would have been financing. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ivan_gammel 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Lidl doesn‘t do that. It is just a grocery discounter, one company of the many in that corporate structure, and one of the users of that cloud. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | joaodlf 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Not necessarily trading blows, but LIDL is huge in all sorts of figures. From revenue to employment numbers. | |||||||||||||||||